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OAuth certificate missing

“The same OAuthTokenIssuer certificate needs to be used by all of the Lync Server 2013 servers. In order to assure this, when you assign this certificate, it is replicated via the CMS and is assigned to all of the Lync Server 2013 servers that require OAuth. ” dodeitte

IssueWhilst deploying Lync Enterprise Edition with 3 Front End Servers I cam across an interesting issue. FE 1 was fine but when I fired up FE 2 and got to the certificate wizard the OAuth Certificate was missing.

One thing you will notice if there is no OAuth certificate is that the Lync Front End Service wont start. OK so where is the cert???

So fist thing was to see if the Front End Servers were replicating, and indeed they were BUT no OAuth. Checking the Cert Manager through MMC shows that the cert isn’t in the personal store. Adding it there manually didn’t help me much either…

Seems that it needs to be put there by the replication process.

I decided to move along (against my best judgement and the clock) and add the default cert to FE 2 and…